The Morning Brew

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• How Good C# Habits can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits: Part 1 – Elijah Manor discusses some of the finer points of JavaScript and how if you come to JavaScript from a purely C# experience you will be able to achieve things, but you will be under misapprehensions about how some things are actually working.
• NuPack- .Net Package Management… and much, much, more & Introducing NuPack: the smart way to bring bits into your projects – Eric Hexter and David Ebbo discuss the need for package management software in the .NET Developer space, and discuss how NuPack addresses these requirements, and David shares a 15minute video demo of NuPack in operation.
• Using Solution Factory + NuPack to create Opinionated Visual Studio Solutions. – Eric Hexter also explores the use of the Solution Factory and MetaPacakges in NuPack to provide templates for solutions in Visual Studio, illustrating with an example which creates a test project configured to his liking within an MVC solution.
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Support for Code Runs before Views and Strongly Typed Models in Razor Views – Shiju Varghese looks at the use of _viewstart.cshtml in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta to provide shared view startup code capabilities
• Testing the Untestable with Delegate Injection – Harry Pierson explores using Delegates to inject functionality into an ASP.NET MVC controller, allowing him to replace calls to static dependencies like FormsAuthentication, Request, Response with more testable alternatives for testing purposes.
• One application in both WPF and Silverlight – Khawar Yunus discusses a few techniques which can help you creating a single application which will run in both a Silverlight and WPF environment
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (VIII) – Signing In + RavenDB Testing – Rob Ashton continues with his series on RavenDB in a real world application with a look at creating the authentication routines of the Image Gallery, and talks about testing RavenDB queries, and his base test class for spinning up RavenDB in order to test the queries.
• Experimental ASP.NET MVC Add-ins : Updated (or why it pays to blog) – Mike Hadlow (with some feedback from Krzysztof Ko?mic) follows up from his previous post sharing an ASP.NET MVC Addin platform based purely on Castle Windsor 2.5
• No Backtracking, Part Two – Eric Lippert looks at a complex example which illustrates why back tracking in the compiler would be both complex and confusing, and would probably result in outcomes which the compiler user would not expect.

Community

• Building Offline Experiences using Sync Framework with Andy Wigley – developer Fusion – The .NET Developer Network User Group host Andy Wigley presenting a session on using the Sync Framework to provide offline working functionality in your .NET Applications. The session is to be hosted at the University of the West Of England, just outside Bristol on Tuesday 16th November.
• Upcoming talks (mostly on RavenDB) – Rob Ashton is going on tour over the next few months delivering sessions covering RavenDB at a number of UK Usergroups, along with a few sessions on NHibernate and structure map at a couple of conferences. Rob has been working with RavenDB for some time now, and will be delivering code heavy sessions looking at its use.

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